Flashback: Bill Elliott’s Superspeedway Win at Michigan

Bill Elliott, a 28-year-old racer from Dawsonville, Georgia, scored his first NASCAR superspeedway victory on June 17, 1984, when he won the Miller High Life 400 at Michigan International Speedway.

Elliott, who started from the pole in the No. 9 Coors Ford, took the lead from Geoff Bodine on a lap 194 restart and beat Dale Earnhardt to the checkered flag by two seconds in front of a reported record crowd of 64,000.

“I hated to see that last caution come out because I knew there were a lot of cars that were running awfully good,” Elliott said in Victory Lane. “I knew my car would run good for a while, and I didn’t know what they could do to beat me right there at the end. But we put on four new tires and the car ran super well.”

The milestone victory came on Father’s Day and was a special present for Elliott’s father, George.